Australia Supercars

Holden and Walkinshaw Racing's 26-year affiliation in Australian Supercars will come to an end next year, after the manufacturer agreed a deal to continue in the championship with Triple Eight. The announcement of the new partnership, with the manufacturer entry to become the Red Bull Holden Racing Team, will bring Walkinshaw Raicng's long-standing ownership of HRT naming rights to an end. HRT ha...

The Australian Supercars series is trying to add Formula E and IndyCar racer Simona de Silvestro to its grid on a full-time basis in 2017. The former Sauber Formula 1 test driver made her debut in the series in last year's Bathurst 1000, in a wild card Ford Falcon run by the title-winning Prodrive team, alongside local Renee Gracie. They finished 21st, 40 laps down, after Gracie hit oil and then ...

The owner of the Super Black Racing team in the Australian Supercars Championship, Tony Lentino has succumbed to cancer. The entrepreneur had been fighting cancer for the last 15 months, and passed away on Monday at his home in Wellsford in New Zealand, aged 42. A New Zealand-themed operation, Super Black Racing was formed in 2014 and made its Supercars debut in the Bathurst 1000 that year, finis...

Australia's Supercars Championship has canceled its scheduled Malaysian street race in Kuala Lumpur. The KL City 400 was due to take place on Aug. 12-14, and would have been the series' first round outside Australia and New Zealand since it raced at Circuit of the Americas in 2013. Series CEO James Warburton said a legal dispute involving the Malaysian promoter had held up preparations. "We have ...

Two-time Bathurst 1000 winner Russell Ingall will complete a unique V8 Supercars hat-trick in this year's endurance races. Ingall has signed a deal to race for Nissan Motorsport alongside Rick Kelly in the two-driver Sandown, Bathurst and Gold Coast races. When he lines up for September's Sandown 500, Ingall will have driven for three different brands in the series in three events, over the cours...

V8 Supercars will drop the "V8" element of its name in July. The Australian series has used the V8 Supercars moniker since 1997, but a name change was always set to accompany next year's incoming Gen2 regulations, which permit V6 and four-cylinder engines. The move will now coincide with a new naming rights sponsorship deal with the Virgin Australia airline. From July 1, the date the nation's fin...

This year's V8 Supercars season finale will be the last event around the streets of Homebush. The series has raced on a street circuit within the Sydney 2000 Olympics precinct since 2009. Pushed back from Nov. 25-27 to Dec. 2-4 due to a scheduling clash in the area, this year's event will be the last. V8 Supercars is in discussions with the New South Wales government about setting up a new event,...

Nick Percat and Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport emerged as shock winners of a wild and bizarre main race at V8 Supercars' Clipsal 500 opener in Adelaide. Sunday's 250km showpiece was disrupted by a long safety car period and red flag when a storm left the former Australian Grand Prix Formula 1 venue awash. Although it was restarted, only 48 of the scheduled 78 laps could be completed within the allotte...

Mark Winterbottom believes Prodrive Racing Australia will have to make more progress on low-speed circuits if he is to successfully defend his V8 Supercars title. Winterbottom won his and the Ford squad's first championship last year, in his 12th full-time campaign. It came as PRA introduced its new FG X Falcon, which proved strong on high-speed circuits but weak at lower speeds early in its life...

Although the V8 Supercar Championship's foray to the United States proved a bridge too far, the series is still intent on expanding further beyond Australia and New Zealand. The V8 series will race this year in Malaysia, while an additional race in Asia as well as the Middle East and even Russia are under consideration for future years. âAt the moment weâre a little bit spoiled for choice for the...

V8 Supercars champion Mark Winterbottom has backed the series' push to fund a full-time female driver, especially if it can attract someone of Formula E racer Simona de Silvestro's caliber. Swiss driver de Silvestro and local Renee Gracie (right to left, BELOW) became the first females to start the series' Bathurst 1000 since 2009 last year. That wave of publicity has prompted a renewed V8 Superc...

Audi factory GT driver Rene Rast will replace injured V8 Supercars star Craig Lowndes in next month's Bathurst 12 Hour. Triple Eight Holden driver Lowndes broke his collarbonebroke his collarbone while riding a motorcycle last weekend, and is facing a fight to be fit for the start of the V8 season in Adelaide in March. It also means he will not race the Audi R8 he was due to share with fellow V8 ...

Mercedes will not appear on the V8 Supercars grid this year, with the Erebus team announcing a switch to Walkinshaw Racing-built Holden Commodores. The squad purchased multiple title winner Stone Brothers Racing and switched from Ford to Mercedes in 2013, with E63 AMGs developed with input from the German manufacturer's sporting arm. While the team won two races â one with Lee Holdsworth in 2014 ...

Mark Winterbottom clinched his first V8 Supercars championship in the penultimate race of the season at Sydney's Olympic Park. The Prodrive Ford driver admitted to being in tears as he crossed the line to finish third, which was enough to make sure Craig Lowndes can't overhaul him in the season finale on Sunday. "I'm speechless to be honest, it hasn't really sunk in," said Winterbottom, who has r...

Red Bull Holden driver Craig Lowndes says the 2015 V8 Supercars title is Mark Winterbottom's to lose. Lowndes is seeking a fourth title - having won his third back in 1999 - and cut Ford pilot Winterbottom's advantage from 240 points to 179 during last weekend's event at Phillip Island, with two wins and a third. While Lowndes has reduced the margin from 423 points across the last four events, in...